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All you need to know about designing, building and managing your Openstack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale‑out deployment.
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IO Visor Project Could Change Cloud Networking
by Canonical on 17 August 2015
The Linux Foundation and PLUMgrid are set to open source IO Visor technology The IO Visor is more than just a new networking technology, it’s a relatively new...
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IBM and Canonical plan Ubuntu support on IBM z Systems Mainframe
by Jane Silber on 17 August 2015
Today, at LinuxCon 2015 in Seattle, Canonical and IBM announced plans to create an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxONE and z Systems. The collaboration with...
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Guests in Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver
by James Donner on 14 August 2015
A key theme of IaaS is that Guests are what makes the compute part of IaaS interesting. And, as Dustin Kirkland suggests in his OpenStack Summit keynote,...
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Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015
by Dustin Kirkland on 12 August 2015
Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list...
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How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2
by Jorge O. Castro on 11 August 2015
One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale....
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Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud
by Dustin Kirkland on 10 August 2015
The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity. Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more...
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Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion
by Randall Ross on 4 August 2015
A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all...
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Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure
by Ryan Finnie on 4 August 2015
It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available,...
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NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver
by James Donner on 3 August 2015
Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service...